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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Sophia give Claire for the Nurturing Center staff not wearing nametags?
(a) She says the pins used to affix the nametags could hurt the children.
(b) She says the children are not allowed to know the workers' names.
(c) She says the children would grab at them.
(d) She says the children are too young to read.

2. What reason does the male Nurturer give for not telling Claire her son's name?
(a) He says that he has forgotten it.
(b) He says that it is too hard to pronounce.
(c) He says he does not want her to get attached.
(d) He says he would get in big trouble if he told anyone.

3. What is a behavior that Claire's son does NOT display during naptime at the Nurturing Center?
(a) Holding his breath.
(b) Sucking his thumb.
(c) Shrieking.
(d) Kicking.

4. What excuse does the male Nurturer give when leaving work early on the last day Claire's son is at the Nurturing Center?
(a) He says he has a feeling that his son Jonas needs him.
(b) He says he has a stomachache.
(c) He says he has a headache.
(d) He says he is sad about the child's coming murder.

5. Though Claire had never volunteered at the Nurturing Center, where had she spent most of her required volunteer time as a child?
(a) At the Childcare Center.
(b) At the local farm.
(c) At the library.
(d) At the high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the process of birthing called in the community?

2. What keeps Claire from asking the boat worker the questions she would like to ask him about Elsewhere?

3. What occasion had prompted the community to perform the Ceremony of Loss a few years before the events of the narrative?

4. When Claire picks up the biology posters from the school, she meets a former teacher of hers. What subject does this woman teach?

5. What skill does Dimitri explain is unique to humans?

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